Shohin Juniper - Not!
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Shohin Juniper - Not!
This pic was taken on my last winter trip to Ballarat Mel. Not sure what species it is but the leaves resemble the chinese jup.
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Re: Shohin Juniper - Not!
Likely cypress. Do chinese junis grow this big? Great taper!!! Scrape back the soil, at a guess i would say realistically 1:2 - 1:3. If we go by what is coming out of the soil, 1:4 - 1:5. Very impressive tree here. Too bad the artist was slack and didn't pinch back to keep foliage compact.
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Re: Shohin Juniper - Not!
Taper
that's a beautiful tree.

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Re: Shohin Juniper - Not!
Actually it is closer to 1:6anttal63 wrote:Likely cypress. Do chinese junis grow this big? Great taper!!! Scrape back the soil, at a guess i would say realistically 1:2 - 1:3. If we go by what is coming out of the soil, 1:4 - 1:5. Very impressive tree here. Too bad the artist was slack and didn't pinch back to keep foliage compact.![]()
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Re: Shohin Juniper - Not!
Hi Kvan,
That's Sequoiadendron giganteum the Giant Redwood.
That's Sequoiadendron giganteum the Giant Redwood.
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Re: Shohin Juniper - Not!
Yea, otherwise it would be a very convincing formal up right. I would do some branch sellection and trim all lower branches up to 1/3 before next spring hehe. Oh oh, scrap back the soil and expose more base tooanttal63 wrote:Likely cypress. Do chinese junis grow this big? Great taper!!! Scrape back the soil, at a guess i would say realistically 1:2 - 1:3. If we go by what is coming out of the soil, 1:4 - 1:5. Very impressive tree here. Too bad the artist was slack and didn't pinch back to keep foliage compact.![]()
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